Cell Phone Posts Here!!

bdcolen

Okay, having gotten my butt kicked over the past 12 hours, I might as well keep it out there...so I'm starting this off. Here are a couple offerings, and a link to my entire collection, all shot with Blackberry Tour, 2.5 mgp, for this exercise:




















And here's the whole lot

thoth

Here is my sole offering B.D. Due to an unexpectedly busy couple weeks I wasn't able to get many shots of any kind. But, I haven't missed an assignment yet so I'll at least post this one!




Thanks for the assignment, B.D. I hope to take a more advantage of it after things settle down a bit.

bdcolen

thoth wrote:

Here is my sole offering B.D. Due to an unexpectedly busy couple weeks I wasn't able to get many shots of any kind. But, I haven't missed an assignment yet so I'll at least post this one!




Thanks for the assignment, B.D. I hope to take a more advantage of it after things settle down a bit.

Nice! I like the way you used the booth to hem her into the photo - though I really, really don't want to know what those snaky things are...

thoth

bdcolen wrote:

Nice! I like the way you used the booth to hem her into the photo - though I really, really don't want to know what those snaky things are...

Haha, thanks B.D. The snaky things pale in comparison to whatever is on the bottom of that glass!

lizzard_nyc

was there a limit?
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lizzard_nyc

B.D.,
Your photo #5 isn't showing--just the

Richard

lizzard_nyc wrote:

B.D.,
Your photo #5 isn't showing--just the

Fixed.

bdcolen

MakeMeShutter wrote:

I get the feeling this image doesn't work, but I like the painterly look the cell phone image gives me.

Agreed - on both counts. This illustrated the difficulty in figuring out how to deal with the limitations of your equipment.:D

bdcolen

MakeMeShutter wrote:

Wow, I love number 6.

Great stuff Liz !!!

1, 4, and maybe six. One is really nice - The funny thing is it might not work as well if it was technically perfect. And you might not have been willing to shoot it. Six is okay - There I wish you had had better equipment.

sara505

I've been busy this week, only had one opportunity - a rainy day - here are mine. Well, I'm also adding my first post, from before I knew not to submit until this week (probably my best shot). I enjoyed this exercise - back to basics. I even like the poor quality. It's just another way of seeing. Sometimes, I deliberately give my eyes a rest - take out my contacts, leave my glasses at home, and walk around looking at the world "fuzzy -" I like it. It makes me use my other senses.

Anyway, here they are.

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2. One more from that first day:



A few from the only other day I got out there:
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sara505

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BD - you are SO messing with my head with this one! All familiar landmarks - my hood! - but everything is inside out and backwards!!

baldmountain

Eh, not happy but here is what I have up to today...

spb13

I gave it a try...

michswiss

I never knew so many phones shot in B&W

I'll try to post mine tonight.

thoth

michswiss wrote:

I never knew so many phones shot in B&W

I'll try to post mine tonight.

It's the darndest things isn't it?

GSPeP

Sony-Ericsson Xperia X1

Somewhere between Brussels and New York:



Somewhere between New York and San Diego:



Las Vegas:

baldmountain

michswiss wrote:

I never knew so many phones shot in B&W

I had to. It was a moral imperative.

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=149739

rutt

Tina Manley

This is as urban as it gets around here!







Tina
www.tinamanley.com

Wil Davis

"OK, now when I nod my head, hit it as hard as you can…"



- Wil

sara505

Tina Manley wrote:

This is as urban as it gets around here!







Tina
www.tinamanley.com

Like the shot, like the grain.

baldmountain

One more that I took at lunch...

baldmountain

I took this one during my lunch time walk just a mile or two outside Boston city limits...

BradfordBenn

I took this one while out for a walk with the dog at Cobus Park in Indiana last week. Straight out of Blackberry....

michswiss

I think I might have missed the "Use By" date for this, but here are a couple of shots from my phone around the time of the exercise. No post processing.

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2)

I've just broken my resolution of not posting any images before Feb. At least they are not fresh. Also, I think we should all try to keep shooting with our phones. One shot a month, ok?

bdcolen

michswiss wrote:

I think I might have missed the "Use By" date for this, but here are a couple of shots from my phone around the time of the exercise. No post processing.

1)

2)

I've just broken my resolution of not posting any images before Feb. At least they are not fresh. Also, I think we should all try to keep shooting with our phones. One shot a month, ok?

There's something about the cell phone camera that really frees you up, Jen. Both of these are better than a good number of your regular posts. It may be that using the cell phone camera gives you the confidence/ability to get close. It may also free you from formalizing the photos - you're just seeing something and going for it. Really nice
(None of which is intended to suggest that you haven't been producing some great stuff with your regular equipment - it's just that there is something quite special about these two - particularly the first one.)

michswiss

bdcolen wrote:

There's something about the cell phone camera that really frees you up, Jen. Both of these are better than a good number of your regular posts. It may be that using the cell phone camera gives you the confidence/ability to get close. It may also free you from formalizing the photos - you're just seeing something and going for it. Really nice
(None of which is intended to suggest that you haven't been producing some great stuff with your regular equipment - it's just that there is something quite special about these two - particularly the first one.)

I'm working to curtail my late night posting of images, so hopefully the ratio of average shots with my regular equipment will decrease. I'm curious though, are most of my shots too formalistic? I can be obsessive and it's possible that it's bleeding into how I compose and crop.

bdcolen

michswiss wrote:

I'm working to curtail my late night posting of images, so hopefully the ratio of average shots with my regular equipment will decrease. I'm curious though, are most of my shots too formalistic? I can be obsessive and it's possible that it's bleeding into how I compose and crop.

Don't start obsessing. Many of your regular shots are wonderful, and formalism is fine. But look at the scene in the first of these phone shots, look at the composition, the positioning of the feet, the forms. This is much looser than your usual work. And the second shot is - much closer.

sara505

michswiss wrote:

I think I might have missed the "Use By" date for this, but here are a couple of shots from my phone around the time of the exercise. No post processing.

1)

2)

I've just broken my resolution of not posting any images before Feb. At least they are not fresh. Also, I think we should all try to keep shooting with our phones. One shot a month, ok?

I like both of these. I love the gesture in the first - the girl leaning into the boy. I like the look of fatigue/impatience on the woman in the subway juxtaposed with the man checking his watch. Tells the whole story RE riding on public transportation, imo.